Germany unmasks the man behind REvil and GandCrab ransomware

For years the hacker known as “UNKN” ran two of the most destructive ransomware operations on the internet. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police — the Bundeskriminalamt, or BKA — now says that’s Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin, a 31-year-old from Krasnodar, Russia, who authorities believe still lives there.

Shchukin allegedly ran GandCrab from its January 2018 …